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I'm about to get the 1080ti in a few days, currently, no GPU but previously had something bad enough (HD Radeon 7970 3GB or so).

I thought of getting the RX Vega as well but looks like it might turn out to be more expensive than the 1080ti + it's AMD so god knows whether it'll be able to compete against nVidia considering they're ruling the gaming industry with their GPUs.

I can report back once I have my 1080ti installed, I don't own Witcher 3 nor SMC (I guess this one doesn't require much is it?) but I got KO.

J/k, I got Overwatch as well and possibly Battlefield 1 once I get my 1080ti, I ordered the ASUS Strix OC version.. it has some pretty convincing reviews in comparison to its competitors.

I'm about to get the 1080ti in a few days, currently, no GPU but previously had something bad enough (HD Radeon 7970 3GB or so).

I thought of getting the RX Vega as well but looks like it might turn out to be more expensive than the 1080ti + it's AMD so god knows whether it'll be able to compete against nVidia considering they're ruling the gaming industry with their GPUs.

I can report back once I have my 1080ti installed, I don't own Witcher 3 nor SMC (I guess this one doesn't require much is it?) but I got KO.

J/k, I got Overwatch as well and possibly Battlefield 1 once I get my 1080ti, I ordered the ASUS Strix OC version.. it has some pretty convincing reviews in comparison to its competitors.

What's your PC specs? (cpu ram, using ssd?) and also i will appreciate it if you can let me know about the results with BF1 and also knight online lol (fps..) once you get your 1080ti..

What's your PC specs? (cpu ram, using ssd?) and also i will appreciate it if you can let me know about the results with BF1 and also knight online lol (fps..) once you get your 1080ti..

Atm I got the 7700k, overclocked to 5Ghz (watercooling as well, not recommended to do without it..)

Ram - 32gigs got 3466mhz of corsair vengeance series but that's just because I deal with graphic stuff.. no game uses more than 6 nowadays but assuming you always have stuff in the background besides games.. I guess 8 - 16 tops will do?

SSD, currently got the 250gb Samsung's 850evo which is mainly just for my OS, I never actually considered it a significant change for games but definitely for your OS..

I have the 1080 ti card insane card the fps in cz while it in the peak time never drops from 200!!!

also forgot to mention I have i7 7700K 4.2 GHZ , 32 GB RAM 480GB SSD sandisk the new volume

4 hours ago, Adi said:

Atm I got the 7700k, overclocked to 5Ghz (watercooling as well, not recommended to do without it..)

Ram - 32gigs got 3466mhz of corsair vengeance series but that's just because I deal with graphic stuff.. no game uses more than 6 nowadays but assuming you always have stuff in the background besides games.. I guess 8 - 16 tops will do?

SSD, currently got the 250gb Samsung's 850evo which is mainly just for my OS, I never actually considered it a significant change for games but definitely for your OS..

Oh guys.. you got some beasts right there lol

i might be getting the new kabylake too, unsure yet.. i'll be low on budget if i improve my CPU.. I guess my ram is okay so I won't touch it for now..

what concerns me is the CPU & GPU right now but if I get that GPU I won't be able to afford improving CPU too, but.. if I get that CPU I might be able to throw some more money on other stuff.. since my ram is alright, any recommendations?

i might be getting the new kabylake too, unsure yet.. i'll be low on budget if i improve my CPU.. I guess my ram is okay so I won't touch it for now..

what concerns me is the CPU & GPU right now but if I get that GPU I won't be able to afford improving CPU too, but.. if I get that CPU I might be able to throw some more money on other stuff.. since my ram is alright, any recommendations?

should i improve my GPU or CPU ?

Well, if all you're doing is gaming I think you should be going for GPU.. CPU can wait.

One more thing you could do is overclock your CPU but I wouldn't recommend that unless you have a proper watercooling.. note this might decrease your CPU's life expectancy.

as for the 1080ti, I just tried KO with it. Indeed getting 200-250fps by anvil (playing at Gordion) but I guess Knight Online isn't the best example, League of Legends too.. don't expect so much in terms of FPS (yes, highest you can get but not hundreds more than other high-end GPUs).

When it comes to 1080ti and its competitors, I think you should be looking at games from 2017-2016 and compare them, I installed it only yesterday so I didn't test much but so far, can't complain.

Well, if all you're doing is gaming I think you should be going for GPU.. CPU can wait.

One more thing you could do is overclock your CPU but I wouldn't recommend that unless you have a proper watercooling.. note this might decrease your CPU's life expectancy.

as for the 1080ti, I just tried KO with it. Indeed getting 200-250fps by anvil (playing at Gordion) but I guess Knight Online isn't the best example, League of Legends too.. don't expect so much in terms of FPS (yes, highest you can get but not hundreds more than other high-end GPUs).

When it comes to 1080ti and its competitors, I think you should be looking at games from 2017-2016 and compare them, I installed it only yesterday so I didn't test much but so far, can't complain.

thanks for your input, i will wait a bit more and see more reviews on this.

if you can post more details once you start playing other games with it, it will be greatly appreciated mate!

thanks for your input, i will wait a bit more and see more reviews on this.

if you can post more details once you start playing other games with it, it will be greatly appreciated mate!

well, tried BF1 campaign earlier this week, didn't have much time to play but I did overall 30-40min of campaign.

looks like games running smooth on ultra (forgot to check fps lol- can check if it matters to you) and GPU's temps aren't going above 37-40c which is relatively low.

Then again, I didn't run on 4K (don't have a 4K monitor) but on 1920x1080 felt very smooth 0 fps drops and temps were low as if I'm not running anything right now, literally right now just having a browser and few more programs opened it's stable on 33-35c lol.

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The GTX 1080 Ti is the fastest card for the dollar on the market right now, Vega is a bust for AMD as it's garbage at playing games and burns tons of power. Volta is coming 1H 2018 however and will likely be a decent uplift over Pascal which will be two years old at that point. I personally would not trade out SLI GTX 980 Ti for a single GTX 1080 Ti. I would wait for Volta and maybe AMD's Navi will be good before upgrading. You will see a much more substantial change in your performance, I would also avoid running SLI unless you need all of that GPU horsepower. It also doesn't help that cryptocurrency mining has made the GPU market go crazy in terms of prices. It's just not a good time to buy a GPU.

The GTX 1080 Ti is the fastest card for the dollar on the market right now, Vega is a bust for AMD as it's garbage at playing games and burns tons of power. Volta is coming 1H 2018 however and will likely be a decent uplift over Pascal which will be two years old at that point. I personally would not trade out SLI GTX 980 Ti for a single GTX 1080 Ti. I would wait for Volta and maybe AMD's Navi will be good before upgrading. You will see a much more substantial change in your performance, I would also avoid running SLI unless you need all of that GPU horsepower. It also doesn't help that cryptocurrency mining has made the GPU market go crazy in terms of prices. It's just not a good time to buy a GPU.

well, after getting the 1080ti, i can see better performance than the 980ti SLI.

Perhaps it wasn't necessary really to change between 980TI SLI to a single 1080ti as I could run all game on highest settings but some games wouldn't run SLI properly, ko for instance lol.

One thing I am having doubts about when I buy an nvidia product is that always, but always, a few months later they release a newer version.

They're controlling the market and we as customers always get affected by it, if you can't afford upgrading every now and then you're in a deep trouble.

Now with the upgrades I made, I want to play KO again but can't afford buying good gear haha, short on budget.